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Tomlinson, Carol Ann; Allan, Susan Demirsky – 2000
Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike. This book explores in 10 chapters how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms: (1) "Understanding…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Instruction, Individualized Instruction
Newman, Anabel P.; Metz, Elizabeth – 1996
This book describes FIRST (Focussed Instruction in Reading for Successful Teaching) Reading, a computer program that takes answers to 20 questions about a learner and matches this profile against profiles in the database. FIRST Reading, formerly called "Consult Reading," can recommend the most-likely-to-succeed teaching focus(es) for…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Expert Systems, Functional Literacy
McKeachie, Wilbert J. – 1978
Compiled as a guide for the beginning college teacher, this handbook covers a wide variety of issues relative to college teaching today. The book is based on four premises: (1) education should be guided by a democratic philosophy; (2) students are adults; (3) instructors can occasionally be wrong; and (4) goals of college teaching should include…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction